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Automattic Acquires Polldaddy

Polldaddy, which for anyone who does not know it, is one of the services for creating online surveys used in blogs and websites, has been the latest acquisition from Automattic, the company behind the Mr. Bender Ball

Wordpress platform, but will not The time will know more details of the agreement.


In this way, the founders of Polldaddy be part of the team of Automattic. Focusing on the service, it has already been migrated to the WordPress.com servers, from where it offers service to more than 4.4 million available this platform from the editor. Moreover, we use WordPress on our servers, we have a plugin that we incorporate this possibility.

Leslee Bender Despite the acquisition, Polldaddy will allow the inclusion of surveys in other platforms such as publishing blogs or social networking.


For the acquisitions that recently carried out by part of Automattic, it seems that they want to have a suite of extra features to incorporate the blogs of WordPress.com series, perhaps motivated because Blogger is also increasing the number of features that can incorporate its users without having to resort to external sites.


In any case, be it Look to see if they make other acquisitions, watching as the integration is carried inside WordPress.com.


Track | TechCrunch
Link | Announcement on the blog of Polldaddy
In Quiviger | Polldaddy, another survey system
     

Apple Sent to the Technical Services an Application to Check the Status of the Graphics Card of Defective MacBooks

Apple acknowledged that the Mac Book Pro from the previous generation were also affected by GPU from NVidia defective, the company will have to replace all the defective GPUs and send the bill to NVidia.

To avoid false positives, or defects not related to defective GPU, Apple is offering Apple Care Centers of tests defined a guide to determine if they enter into the program of replacements.

They will have to activate the application and is determined which is the component that is failing. If this is the NVidia GPU, the application will generate a code for sending spare parts, which will also be used to extend the warranty.

Apple will create a database of the affected MacBook Pro, and determine whether the problem is affecting a big problem for computers or not, if only a few serials are involved, one might expect that a limited number of computers affected. We must not forget that NVidia initially said that the MacBook Pro were not affected.

The GPU is taken to its limits to prove their status. Unfortunately, this application will not be published, which could help the owners of the MacBook Pros to determine if your GPU is among the defective.

Source: HardMac